Latest Medical Professional Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Medical Professional Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Compromise Plan on Oregon MalpracticeDamages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
Life-Saving Medical Technology Also a Culprit in Physicians’ Liability
Jun 6 2005 // In the debate over the crisis in the medical malpractice system, exorbitant jury awards and insurance industry pricing tactics are often singled out as guilty parties. But at least one report points out the central role...
New Health-Care Technologies Raise Malpractice Risks
Jun 6 2005 // New health-care technologies are helping people live longer, better-quality lives but also increase medical liability exposures, a panel of experts concluded at the Crittenden medical insurance conference in New Orleans...
Illinois Democrats Get Message on Medical Malpractice Reform
Jun 6 2005 // The latest turn in the battle over capping medical malpractice jury awards in Illinois may have the state’s trial bar singing the old Righteous Brothers tune, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’...
Compromise Plan on Oregon Malpractice Damages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
Compromise Plan on Oregon Malpractice Damages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
KFF: Medical Malpractice Claims Stable; FTCR Reports Time to Focus on Insurers’ Practices
May 31 2005 // The chief argument for legislation to limit the legal rights of patients injured by a physician – that the number of medical malpractice claims and the cost of those claims have been skyrocketing – is a...
Ill. House Committee Passes Bill to Cap Medical Malpractice Damages
May 30 2005 // As state lawmakers prepared to approve a deal on medical malpractice, Illinois doctors and hospitals celebrated a big victory Thursday but also braced for the sour medicine they will likely have to swallow to get their...
D.C. Task Force Seeks Med-Mal Ideas to Keep Doctors from Fleeing
May 27 2005 // Hoping to stem the tide of doctors fleeing the nation’s capital for the suburbs, home of cheaper malpractice insurance, the city government is stepping in. The District of Columbia Council is expected to consider...
PCI: Ill. Medical Liability Proposal – One Step Forward, One Step Back
May 27 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is expressing mixed emotions over the medical liability proposal likely to pass in the Illinois Legislature. SB 475, which focuses on several key aspects of the...
Accident Victim’s Attorney Asks Court to Limit Access to Medical Records
May 23 2005 // A lawyer for a woman suing over injuries from a 2001 car accident asked the Colorado Supreme Court to limit the other side’s access to her medical records, saying insurance companies have abused such information and...
Crisis in Medical Professional Liability Diminished, PLUS Panelists Say
May 23 2005 // States with meaningful tort reform are seeing stabilization in the medical professional liability arena from three years ago. Despite the decrease in claims frequency, however, severity persists and insurers must maintain...
Crisis in Medical Professional Liability Diminished, PLUS Panelists Say
May 23 2005 // States with meaningful tort reform are seeing stabilization in the medical professional liability arena from three years ago. Despite the decrease in claims frequency, however, severity persists and insurers must maintain...
Accident Victim’s Attorney Asks Court to Limit Access to Medical Records
May 23 2005 // A lawyer for a woman suing over injuries from a 2001 car accident asked the Colorado Supreme Court to limit the other side’s access to her medical records, saying insurance companies have abused such information and...
Insurers Dispute Study of Ill. Courthouse Med-Mal Data
May 22 2005 // Court statistics were improperly used in a study released last week that concluded the Illinois tort system is not the cause of medical malpractice premium increases, according to the American Insurance...
AIA: Texas Med-Mal Reforms Showing Excellent Results
May 18 2005 // Recent news from the American Medical Association offered more evidence that the medical malpractice insurance reforms that took effect in Texas in 2003, are working, the American Insurance Association announced. The...
Vt. Doctors Call for Med-Mal Action
May 16 2005 // Sharp increases in medical malpractice insurance premiums are prompting Vermont doctors to call for the Legislature to limit payouts in malpractice lawsuits and take other steps to rein in costs. “While medical...
S.C. Malpractice Premiums Going Up 12.7 Percent in July
May 12 2005 // Despite a bill signed into law last month in South Carolina capping pain and suffering awards in medical malpractice lawsuits, two of the state’s largest malpractice insurers have announced plans to increase...
Pa. Hospitals Paying 2.6% of Patient Revenues for Med-Mal Expenses
May 9 2005 // Pennsylvania’s 182 general acute care hospitals reported a total of $636 million in medical malpractice expenses in fiscal year 2004, according to a research report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment...
COMMISSION CALLS FOR MED-MAL DOCKET
May 9 2005 // A pilot malpractice docket for medical liability suits and a “patient safety center” to help prevent medical errors are among the final recommendations offered by a commission chaired by Ohio Insurance Director...
